Will the country become more comfortable reckoning honestly with its history?

Forty-one history majors and minors, including seven honors thesis writers, graduated June 12, 2022.

Please join the faculty for a celebration of the graduating history students on Saturday, June 11, at 4:30 p.m. in the Wheeler Lawn Tent (next to Rollins Chapel). Families and friends are welcome!

Professors Matthew Garcia and Bethany Moreton were featured in a piece published in Salon on May 31, 2022 titled "Now the far right is coming for college too — with taxpayer-funded 'classical education'."

The event will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 7 p.m. on Zoom.

The History Department is pleased to welcome Professor Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, for a lecture titled "Black Femme Freedom: Histories of Slavery, Gender, and Resistance" on May 5, 2022.

Read Professor Udi Greenberg's essay "Freud and the Miseries of Politics" in The New Republic, published on February 3, 2022.

This year's History Honors Thesis Presentations will take place on April 18, 19, and 21, in Haldeman 041.

Professor Matthew Garcia has been appointed to the advisory committee for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino.